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Stella, an elderly woman alone at Christmas, finds an unlikely companion to spend the holiday season with.

Dr. Islam Issa grew up in Birmingham with his Egyptian-born parents. As a child he was taught Cleopatra was a great politician, who turned her capitol Alexandria into a global seat of learning and made Egypt one of the most powerful countries on the planet.

A single man prepares for war.

A poetic experience, Flore unfolds a plant fresco on the edge of the intimate and the fantastic, where the eye, like that of the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, living things transform and beings reveal themselves.

A journey around the universe of Idiazabal cheese in the company of exceptional characters like Eli Arrillaga who, widowed at the age of 24 years, had to choose between following her husband’s trade of shepherding, or returning to her urban environment in Zarautz. Eli continued to work as a shepherd and is today one of the most important producers of this cheese. Exceptional characters like Juan Mari and Elena Arzak, Eneko Atxa, Joan Roca, Martín Berasategui, Pedro Subijana and Andoni Luis Aduriz, who have absolutely no doubts as to the importance of an artisan, high quality produce that fits perfectly into their demanding culinary procedure. On the Urbía, Aralar and Gorbea mountain ranges, in the highlands of Navarre, the shepherds lavish care on their herds, their prized latxa sheep, with a view to obtaining a product of fine quality, capable of winning the annual cheese competition in Ordizia.

In summer, thousands of holidaymakers pour into the small sailing town of Salcombe in Devon. How does one of the UK’s most beautiful tourist destinations cope with its staycation invasion? Filmed in 2019 before Covid-19 restrictions.

How do we remember today? How do we relate to what links yesterday to today, past to present? What does it mean to be spectators of stories we never lived, of a history we can only read on books, see in images and hear from other, older people's voices?

A place that never rests: the Elbschlosskeller on Hamburger Berg. Pop songs blast out of the jukebox 24 hours a day, many regulars sit at the bar drowning their sorrows in beer and schnapps. The authors of this sensitive report have met people who have been dealt a bad hand by fate.

Highlighting the struggle of loneliness and irrational thought.

Starting from a small kiosk of old postcards as a derisory memorial of Algerian history, the visual artist questions the role of images - or the absence of images - in the representation of the colonial heritage of Algeria, of decolonization and the dark years… in short, in the construction of his national novel. In three separate chapters, Katia Kameli delivers a reflection on the making of images or symbols (the flag!). In the enlightened company of the philosopher Marie-José Mondzain and extracts from films by Assia Djebar, she begins a critique that goes beyond the Algerian framework on our relationship to the stories, ideologies and images that shape them.

In Half Moon, Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” is paired with footage of the artist’s Vietnamese father walking in an Asian restaurant, the music transforming his nervous march into a hip catwalk stride. Meanwhile, sluggish, eerie electronic beats often accompany angled shots of apartment interiors, accentuating a certain ghostly nature of such spaces. Music haunts, yet this state of being haunted has nothing to do with horror; it is more hypnagogic and ethereal. Amidst the hauntingly disorienting music, the sense of space is as distracting as the temporal experience.

It's a coming of age story about how two teenage girls' friendship becomes betrayal because of a boy, in a stupid "drink ink" game.

An installation echoing post-election billboard vandalism in Dakar, Senegal.

When a deep-web cult descends upon the idyllic surroundings of Ashwood Forest, a powerful darknet force takes control of the town's devices. As the cultist's gain control, it's a race to decipher darknet's signal - a dangerous journey into Ashwood Forest begins but what secrets will be unearthed?

A study in the visceral: labour, the weight of the body, how we might traverse space, and perhaps life itself, together and apart, participating, denying, folding, collapsing, surrendering, spinning, falling... holding, carrying, burden and release, kindness and dissolution. A journey of sorts, in which the camera remains fully involved. It was also a dream. With performance actions by Ezra Allen and Lily Ashrowan, filmed in the Scottish Borders.

Puerto Rican high school senior Lourdes Garcia faces a gender metamorphosis at the peak age of her adolescence. It is up to the guidance of her chosen family the House of Grace, and teachings of Yemaya, to find acceptance within her own identity. When Lourdes discovers who true self, she reaches her full potential, emulating the mother of the world at the Fantasia Ball.

Distant memories of the past are recalled as fleeting fragments by a man in his eighties.

An old lady reminisces about the alien she befriended in her youth who promised to take her with them to see the stars.

1994. A band of faceless artists make a fool of national newspapers... and they all go by the name Luther. In the shadows of the city of Bologna in the 90s, emerges the fake persona of Luther Blissett, sharing his name with the AC Milan striker, but it's a pseudonym. Most of all, Luther Blissett is a space that welcomes experimentations, spreading freedom in a wide network of artists and saboteurs, it is performance, demonstrations, publications, radio shows and, most of all, what today we refer to as "fake news". This irresistible documentary tells the story of the collective from which the contemporary Wu Ming was born: a visionary cultural movement who's aim was to unveil the media's hypocrisy. And that managed to do it.

People Meeting in a Room reflects on collective filmmaking and workers’ activism in the UK, connecting the histories of activists and filmmakers associated with the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre in the 1980s with a group of contemporary collaborators. The contributors interpret archival films and collective actions through animation, performance, and conversation.

Two brothers running through a war-torn middle eastern city see differing versions of the world, real and unreal.

We should definitely go over this again! Should I drive back? Should I get you out of my car and pick you up again? If the plan is not working, then we just start all over again.

Ham on toast, second coffee in the morning: lazy Andalusian breakfast. The news that Antonio got a job in the Pentagon will turn this little world on it ́s head.

Evelyn Cordero, is a 93-year-old former ballet dancer, who despite her age still gives her heart in her dance studio.

In Rimini Protokoll’s new production, Christian Hempel steps onto the stage for the first time, together with musician and geriatric nurse Benjamin Jürgens and politician Bijan Kaffenberger. They also have Tourette. Collectively with musician Barbara Morgenstern, they put theatre to the test: to what degree can theatre tolerate an absence of intent? How much protection can theatre offer? And after the applause is over, it may become clear that this piece isn’t really about Tourette. It is actually about the audience, about theatre and about the fear of losing control.

A short documentary that tells, through everyday life paintings, the CARA Mineo: the largest center for asylum seekers in Europe, stuck between the warm and clay valleys of Sicilian Calatino. Near the camp fence we meet Mohammad, who wants to run away; Aqib and Malik who dream of reaching Milan and joining its LGBTQI scene; Ibrahim, the hypnotic musician waiting for his documents; Dieudonne “le prophète” who harshly denounces the poor condition of the asylum seekers.

It’s certainly a classic day for Guy, a candid young man, who walks around with ideas that sprout in the wind. Following the absorption of a strange substance, he enters a dreamlike world linking pleasure to the Arts.

The discovery of Sara’s gender identity through curiosity and the approach to places not intended for her gender.

Tanya came to Argentina from Ukraine a long time ago. His daily life seems to take place in an imaginary terrain made of two continents: languages, spaces, objects, songs and news build geographically impossible bridges. Are we in Latin America or Eastern Europe? While life goes on here, in Kiev everything is on fire.